One chapter of this work uses the metaphor of a magic city to explain the necessity of partial successes on the way to permanent enlightenment. In the middle section of this work, a treasure tower covered with past incarnations of spirituality appears and the Ceremony of Space and Three Treasures begins. This works opens with the "Sutra on Limitles
One chapter of this work uses the metaphor of a magic city to explain the necessity of partial successes on the way to permanent enlightenment. In the middle section of this work, a treasure tower covered with past incarnations of spirituality appears and the Ceremony of Space and Three Treasures begins. This works opens with the "Sutra on Limitless Meanings" that summarizes the past forty years of the Buddha's ministry. Through the parable of the burning house, this sutra explains the fallacy of the (*) three vehicle approach to enlightenment, claiming that all can reach nirvana through the single "greater vehicle".  This sutra is the most important in both Tendai and a Japanese sect that venerates the Shakyamuni Buddha. For 10 points, name this work that forms the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, an influential Mahayana Sutra named after a flower.
One chapter of this work uses the metaphor of a magic city to explain the necessity of partial successes on the way to permanent enlightenment.
{Lotus} Sutra [or Sutra on the {While Lotus} of the {Sublime Dharma}; or {Sanddharma Pundarika} Sutra]